Happy 50th Birthday Charlie

I just wanted to wish "Charlie" a very happy 50th birthday, it's amazing how time seems to have flown past, I joined Premier MIS back in January 1990 which is now 21 years ago, so Charles would have been 29 back then! Okay I think we need to stop the clock now.

Anyway Charlie hope you had an awesome birthday!

Lusito Land

Well it was arranged that we would meet all the ex-prems at Lusito Land, the night before Sunday the 24th of April, the weather had not been good, hence we received some phone calls from friends saying: "Take your Wellies", "Not coming - rather stay in bed", well I guess when you have such fantastic weather in SA, the rain does make you want to stay home, but in Ireland alas we go out in all kinds of weather else you just miss out on Life.

But luckily we got to meet the most beautiful twins in the world, Thanks Trevor & Kirsten for bringing the twins out to meet us and to come and see us, it was lovely seeing you!!!

SAD NEWS

Hi Everyone,

I heard this morning of the passing of Andre Barnard.  He will be sadly missed as he was a wonderful friend and Colleague, here is the note I found on LinkedIn this morning.

Andre Barnard passed away on Thursday. For more info call his wife 0828959838

Will post some more later, if you would like to add any memories or notes about Andre, you can do so here and I will repost them.

Rose. 

Trevor's Team

Here are some photo's of Trevor's gorgeous boys one with Santa ...

Maria's Christmas at Hartebeespoort

Hi Rose,

I am sure that you had a wonderfull white Christmas. Ours was not as traditional, but still very nice. My sister Carmen come from Spain and Johanna and family come from Ballito.

This year it was a small gathering of 10. Next year will have again all the family coming from all over the place.
These are the only photos I have at the moment, as I am waiting for Johanna to send me the photos taken with her camera.

In these photo, it is only me Michael and my grandkids Savannah and Bradley.

Love to all
Maria

Email & Photos from Sevesty

Hallo to Everybody, especially for those that still remember me.

I am proud to announce that I have a new family member added to the Erasmus clan.

She is 3 months old, unexpected after 8 years.

I had to learn everything again from the start, whoever said that being a parent will be easy, lied.

Photos attached.

Shinique Cara Erasmus 3 months old

Xavier Erasmus 8 years old at Dads business.

Love Sevesty

Christmas 2010 from all the Ex-Premier Clan around the world

Dalene & her family having Christmas in South Africa

Gerhard and Edith celebrate Christmas with Santa in Sunny South Africa

Along with Ina 

Dave Jones daughter Alexa who celebrated Christmas away from their home town in California this year and spent it with family in the U.K. (Some more photos please Dave)

Christmas in Sydney Australia with Lawrence, Melina & Alex

A lovely compilation of photos from Sandy - Christmas in South Africa, thanks Sandy.

Under the Christmas Tree with Derrick & Emily in Ireland

Celebrating our first really White Christmas in IRELAND

Christmas with Lynn in the U.K. 

Current Members of the Alumni

Facebook

Wow, I can't believe what a small world it is since Facebook arrived, in the last 2 days I have reunited with Dalene and Edith from MIS, Dalene suggested starting an alumni page, which I did - so if you are not on it yet please join.

Lynn's Visit to the Island of Ireland

It was so nice to Lynn over in Ireland again, we worked out that she hadn't been over for 3 years which is not too bad, we probably need to go to the UK for a visit again.
Anyway Lynn arrived and we went and dropped Emily off at friends and we headed to the O2 for the Kiss concert, maybe Lynn will write something on her new blog for us to read about.

Then Saturday we picked up up, went to the park, had lunch at Milano's (really nice pizza), then off to Emily's dress rehearsals for her up coming concert and then home to chillax, wine, food and lots to talk about.

Sunday we took a drive to the top of the hill behind us, then we went to Powerscourt, which is a stately home in beautiful gardens that once belonged to Princess Fergies grandmother, from there we went to Marlay park and home for lunch, so nothing too strenuous but really nice and relaxing.  All to soon it was time for Lynn to go, luckily she got here as flights had been cancelled 3 days prior due to Volcanic ash.

Congratulations Trevor & Kirsten

Well Trev has finally become a daddy twice, yes Kirsten and Trevor had 2 boys on Friday the 16th of April 2010.   Here is the message from Kirsten on Facebook:

Mathieu and Sebastien were born at 15:30. They were screaming their little hearts out and are doing well in the icu. Mathieu weighs 1.6 kgs and Sebastien 960 grams.

Kirsten has been in the Sandton Clinic for a while now, so they were delivered by C section on Friday.  Her latest update on Facebook is:

A quick update on the boys...They have good healthy lungs and wriggle a lot. They are tiny but fighters and the paediatrician is really happy with their progress. I'm a bit sore after the c-section. but it's all worth it when they clutch your finger. :-)

Well done to you both!